Maybe it's nostalgia or more likely it is the ass-design. The newer starters really suck and I don't care which one...

Yeah this reads more like you fell out of favor with the Pokemon loop. If you ask a teen today I can bet you on average they'll tell you gen 3 had the best starters, and kids today will gush about the fox wizard Pokemon.

I mean, how can you beat the magic of picking your first Pokemon?

I liked gen 3 because of the gameplay additions, I think Pokemon across each generation are creative enough that none really stands above the others. Woobats and all.

I started kinda late with videogames and Ruby was my first game ever that wasn't on the PC. Blaziken was the ****, as was Grovyle. Swampert was okay. I liked the gen-two starters too all-around, and I thought gen-one's were okay.

Unfortunately one of the regions seems to be "places Niantic doesn't care about" because while some areas have an obvious skew towards unusual Pokemon, a lot of places have the same Pidgey/Ratata/Drowzee combo.

Honestly I got bored of the game (such as it is) after three days. The various blatant flaws in the design of the app and the lack of any goal besides just grinding up your level and catching every pokemon in your area. Within three days of playing earnestly maybe one or two hours in a day the tracker had no greyed out pokemon or very few, and as everyone else seems to have found, catching a billion pidgeys, ratatas and spearows was the order of the day. Getting anything else took a lot of time spent blundering around checking my phone (which sucks the fun out of taking a walk) and the idea of having to track down 50 Magikarp just to evolve one didn't fill me with excitement.